Is Zika Outbreak Blowback From the Release of GM Mosquitoes? “Nature Finds A Way”

This article was written by Brandon Turbeville and originally published at Natural Blaze.com.

Editor’s Comment: As Florida descends into martial law by going door-to-door and forcing residents to submit urine samples, while aerial spraying and other inadvisable tactics are used in the name of controlling Zika, it is well worth noting that the roots of the disease may well lie in misguided and dangerous efforts to control mosquito populations.

While the following article can’t definitively prove the link between GM mosquitoes and the outbreak of Zika, it raises some very interesting questions. Has the blowback of disease outbreak come so quickly from the arrogant attempt to use genetic modification to curb one of nature’s worst pests? Somebody better come up with answers quick, before the entire population is potential exposed to this. Meanwhile, people should be proactive and prepare for dealing with sickness and outbreak, while minimizing their exposure to the areas where this is happening, and the conditions in which mosquitoes thrive, potentially spreading disease.

Zika Mosquitoes Same as GM Mosquitoes Released Off the Coast of Florida

by Brandon Turbeville

State and local officials in Florida are now going door to door asking residents for urine samples and other information as a result of the alleged local transmission of the Zika virus. According to CNN, four individuals located in Miami-Dade and Broward counties have been infected with the Zika virus as a result of local mosquitoes. These are the first known cases of Zika transmission by mosquitoes in the continental U.S.

Currently there is no treatment or vaccine for Zika and officials believe the transmission is confined to a single zip code, an area north of downtown Miami. Despite the fact there have been 386 cases of Zika in Florida, the mainstream media and many health officials are treating this new transmission as a cause for potential panic.

It’s also possible that someone could have Zika without actually knowing. About 80% of the people who have the virus show no symptoms at all. For the other 20%, those symptoms can include joint pain, red eyes, rash and fever which can last from a few days to a week.

While Zika is certainly concerning, it is also not the type of disease one should go full Contagion on. If officials are truly concerned about the spread of Zika, they will attack the virus at its greatest weakness – high living standards. Twenty-first century levels of sanitation and mosquito control efforts (notably not the genetic engineering and release of mosquitoes) as well as the greater funding and establishment of more advanced healthcare systems would do more to stop Zika than door-to-door urine collecting.

Still, there may be more to the story than mere virus transmission.

Seemingly coming out of nowhere, Zika went from its first discovered case in 1947 and sporadic appearances up until last year, the virus is now in outbreak stage with WHO officials concerned that it may become a pandemic. World health researchers seem perplexed as to the genesis of the virus or at least, the sudden appearance and rapid spread of it in 2015.

When examining a rapidly expanding potential pandemic, it’s necessary to leave no stone unturned so possible solutions, as well as future prevention, will be as effective as possible. In that vein, there was another significant development in 2015.

Oxitec first unveiled its large-scale, genetically-modified mosquito farm in Brazil in July 2012, with the goal of reducing “the incidence of dengue fever,” as The Disease Daily reported. Dengue fever is spread by the same Aedes mosquitoes which spread the Zika virus — and though they “cannot fly more than 400 meters,” WHO stated, “it may inadvertently be transported by humans from one place to another.” By July 2015, shortly after the GM mosquitoes were first released into the wild in Juazeiro, Brazil, Oxitec proudly announced they had “successfully controlled the Aedes aegypti mosquito that spreads dengue fever, chikungunya and zika virus, by reducing the target population by more than 90%.”Though that might sound like an astounding success — and, arguably, it was — there is an alarming possibility to consider.

Nature, as one Redditor keenly pointed out, finds a way — and the effort to control dengue, zika, and other viruses, appears to have backfired dramatically.

The mosquitoes that were released by Oxitec OX513A, were genetically engineered to need the presence of tetracycline in order to survive to maturity. Outside of the presence of tetracycline, they die. The idea behind the GM mosquitoes, was that they would be released into the wild and would mate with the natural female mosquitoes (only males were modified). The offspring that result are also supposed to die without the presence of tetracycline in their system. The GM mosquito program was introduced under the guise of controlling disease-carrying mosquito populations to reduce the amount of diseases in humans that were spread by mosquitoes.

There is a massive problem with this program, however, most notably, the fact that the presence of tetracycline in the environment is not as rare as one might suspect. Particularly in a place like Brazil.

As Claire Bernish writes:

According to an unclassified document from the Trade and Agriculture Directorate Committee for Agriculture dated February 2015, Brazil is the third largest in “global antimicrobial consumption in food animal production”— meaning, Brazil is third in the world for its use of tetracycline in its food animals. As a study by the American Society of Agronomy, et. al., explained,“It is estimated that approximately 75% of antibiotics are not absorbed by animals and are excreted in waste.”One of the antibiotics (or antimicrobials) specifically named in that report for its environmental persistence is tetracycline.

Back in September 2010, Dr. Ricarda A. Steinbrecher wrote a report in which he stated that there is a known survival rate of 3-4 percent of the GM mosquitoes. He suggested that further studies should be conducted before they’re released in the environment.

Claire Bernish points out that the survival rate might actually be much higher than what Steinbrecher suggested.

In fact, as a confidential internal Oxitec document divulged in 2012, that survival rate could be as high as 15% — even with low levels of tetracycline present. “Even small amounts of tetracycline can repress”the engineered lethality. Indeed, that 15% survival rate was described by Oxitec:

“After a lot of testing and comparing experimental design, it was found that [researchers] had used a cat food to feed the [OX513A] larvae and this cat food contained chicken. It is known that tetracycline is routinely used to prevent infections in chickens, especially in the cheap, mass produced, chicken used for animal food. The chicken is heat-treated before being used, but this does not remove all the tetracycline. This meant that a small amount of tetracycline was being added from the food to the larvae and repressing the [designed] lethal system.”

Even absent this tetracycline, as Steinbrecher explained, a “sub-population” of genetically-modified Aedes mosquitoes could theoretically develop and thrive, in theory, “capable of surviving and flourishing despite any further”releases of ‘pure’ GM mosquitoes which still have that gene intact. She added, “the effectiveness of the system also depends on the [genetically-designed] late onset of the lethality. If the time of onset is altered due to environmental conditions … then a 3-4% [survival rate] represents a much bigger problem…”

Yet there are still more problems with the process of releasing GM mosquitoes into the environment.

Another risk associated with the Oxitec experiment is the potential for the release of genetically engineered biting females into the environment. Since female mosquitoes are the mosquitoes which bite humans, Oxitec claims that its GE mosquito population is an all-boys club. However, due to the method by which the mosquitoes are sorted, the potential for release of female mosquitoes is very real.

As Eric Hoffman writes, “The sorting is conducted by hand and could result in up to 0.5 percent of the released insects being female. This would raise new human health concerns as people could be bit by GE mosquitoes. It could also hamper efforts to limit the spread of dengue fever.”

It should also be noted that eradicating the Aedes aegypti type of mosquito might well leave the area open to invasion by other species who may, in fact, be much more dangerous to human health. For instance, the Asian Tiger mosquito, considered one of the most invasive species in the world, is known to be a carrier of both Dengue fever and the West Nile Virus. What would be the result of an Asian Tiger invasion into South Florida? An eradication of Aedes aegypti might well provide us with an answer.

While many might be concerned about the spread of the Zika virus, from places like Africa and Brazil to the Western world and beyond, or that the virus will become an epidemic in the places it currently resides, many Americans might be surprised to learn that the Oxitec GM mosquitoes are slated to be released inside the United States.

In December 2011, I wrote an article entitled “Releasing Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes Poses Unknown Risks to Florida” where I documented the Oxitec plans to release 5-10,000 GM mosquitoes near the Florida Keys. This program was presented to the public under the guise of an attempt to eradicate Dengue fever and is still awaiting approval from regulatory agencies despite widespread opposition from the public. So if it is true that there is a link between the GM mosquitoes and Zika virus, then Florida may soon be covered in ticking time bombs over its swamps, waiting to provide us with yet another public health emergency.

Yet the program itself is actually older than that. In 2009, also under the guise of preventing the spread of Dengue fever, GM mosquitoes were released by Oxitec in the Cayman Islands. In fact, it is this release that has many questioning whether or not the GM mosquitoes actually have a link to increased rates of Dengue fever. After all, shortly after the release of the GM mosquitoes in the Caymans, cases of Dengue fever in Florida doubled. Is it merely a coincidence that cases of Dengue increased shortly after millions of mosquitoes capable of carrying the fever were released miles away in the Cayman Islands?

While Dengue fever had been eradicated in terms of naturally occurring outbreaks in the United States, cases that were research-related and laboratory-generated have occurred in the country for many years. This is because Dengue fever has been of particular interest to the United States government, US Army, and CIA since at least the middle part of the 20th century. There is a great deal of evidence suggesting that the biochemical research facilities at Fort Detrick were conducting tests on Dengue fever as a bio-weapon as far back as 1942. It is generally known that in the 1950s the CIA partnered with Ft. Detrick to study Dengue fever and other exotic diseases for use as biological weapons.

It is also interesting to note that, according to CIA documents as well as a 1975 congressional committee, the three locations of Key West, Panama City, and Avon Park (and two other locations in central Florida) were testing sites for Dengue fever research.

As is generally the case, the experiments in Avon Park were concentrated in low-income neighborhoods, in areas that were predominantly black with newly constructed housing projects. According to H.P. Albarelli Jr. and Zoe Martell of Truthout, CIA documents related to the MK/NAOMI program revealed that the agency was using the Aedes aegypti type of mosquito in these experiments as well. In one of these experiments, 600,000 mosquitoes were released over Avon Park and in another 150,000 insects were released in specially designed paper bags that were designed to open up when they hit the ground.

Truthout interviewed residents (or test subjects) of Avon Park still living in the area who related that there were at least 6 or 7 deaths resulting from the experiments. As quoted by Truthout, one resident said, “Nobody knew about what had gone on here for years, maybe over 20 years, but in looking back it explained why a bunch of healthy people got sick quick and died at the time of those experiments.” Truthout goes on to point out that around the same time of the Avon Park experiments “there were at least two cases of Dengue fever reported among civilian researchers at Fort Detrick in Maryland.”

In 1978, a Pentagon document titled, “Biological Warfare: Secret Testing & Volunteers” revealed that similar experiments were conducted in Key West by the Army Chemical Corps and Special Operations and Projects Divisions at Fort Detrick.

Like the current situation, U.S. government agencies teamed with NGOs, academia, and other organizations to conduct mosquito-related projects. Operation Bellweather, a 1959 experiment consisting of over 50 field tests, was conducted over several states including Georgia, Maryland, Utah, and Arizona, and Florida. Operation Bellweather was coordinated with the Rockefeller Institute in New York; the facility that actually bred the mosquitoes. What’s more, the experiment was aided by the Armour Research Foundation, the Battelle Memorial Institute, Ben Venue Labs, Inc., the University of Florida, Florida State University, and the Lovell Chemical Company.

The military and CIA connections to Dengue fever outbreaks do not end with these experiments, however. It is widely believed that the 1981 outbreak in Cuba was a result of CIA and U.S. military covert biological attacks. This outbreak occurred essentially out of nowhere and resulted in over one hundred thousand cases of infection. Albarelli and Martell write:

American researcher William H. Schaap, an editor of Covert Actionmagazine, claims the Cuba Dengue outbreak was the result of CIA activities. Former Fort Detrick researchers, all of whom refused to have their names used for this article, say they performed ‘advance work’ on the Cuba outbreak and that it was ‘man made.’

In 1982 the CIA was accused by the Soviet media of sending operatives into Pakistan and Afghanistan for the purposes of creating a Dengue epidemic. Likewise, in 1985 and 1986, authorities in Nicaragua made similar claims against the CIA, also suggesting that they were attempting to start a Dengue outbreak.

While the CIA has characteristically denied involvement in all of these instances, army researchers have admitted to having worked intensely with “arthropod vectors for offensive biological warfare objectives” and that such work was conducted at Fort Detrick in the 1980s. Not only that, but researchers have also admitted that large mosquito colonies, which were infected with both yellow fever and Dengue fever, were being maintained at the Frederick, Maryland facility.

There is also evidence of experimentation with federal prisoners without their knowledge. As Truthout reports:

Several redacted Camp Detrick and Edgewood Arsenal reports indicate that experiments were conducted on state and federal prisoners who were unwittingly exposed to Dengue fever, as well as other viruses, some possibly lethal.

With all of the evidence that CIA and military tests have been conducted regarding Dengue fever, there is ample reason to be concerned when one sees a connection like the recent release of mosquitoes and the subsequent outbreak of Dengue fever in Florida, a traditional testing site for these organizations.

The response to the Dengue outbreak should also be questioned as aerial spraying campaigns were intensified. While these sprayings were claimed to be for the eradication of the Dengue-carrying mosquitoes, the number of people who contracted the illness actually rose.

While it was painfully obvious from the very beginning, that releasing genetically modified mosquitoes was a very bad idea, the possible connection to the mosquitoes and the increase of previously eradicated or extremely rare diseases should be a dramatic wake-up call to everyone.

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“There is no commercial test available for the Zika virus. The CDC has blood tests to look for Zika virus or similar diseases such as dengue or chikungunya viruses, which are spread by the same type of mosquitoes.”

So only the CDC can diagnose a case of Zika. No commercial test means Walgreens or your Dr can not diagnose you ? ! ? ? ?

obtaining samples of possibly infected individuals is a time tested means of controlling epidemics

if you choose to reject modern scientific methods
fine…
just be prepared to accept the consequences

zika is linked with microcephaly FACT
the estimated cost over a lifetime for one of these children is being estimated as high as 10 million dollars
no whining when your taxes go up or the health care system collapses under the weight

Women from South America are already coming here pregnant with brain impaired babies in their womb, knowing our brain dead politicians will call these medical nightmares, American citizens. Don’t complain when it breaks the back of our already strained medical system. I’m Already complaining. This insanity has to stop or we citizens will be forced to physically remove, The Powers That Be.

Use lemon eucalyptus oil to repel mosquitos. Also lavender, rosemary, and thyme. Mix with witch hazel.

As Horace said (65 – 8 BC), “you can drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will nevertheless come back.”

More significantly, this applies to the world of economics, which is why Ludwig von Mises of the Austrian (as opposed to Keynsianism) wrote the book Human Action, about economics. This book explains the whole utter IGNORANCE of the left and why socialism has never worked, will never work, and CAN never work. Not that they won’t stop trying, with YOUR money.

Satori,
Look at who’s reporting it. It’s the establishment and they don’t want him in there,
I have never in my life seen a sitting President get on tv and do what Obama did yesterday. That shows the sheer fear the establishment has right now, not one dem I know is voting Billery, all going to someone other than her.
I see Obummer stopping the elections.
Just my opinion.
Take care

When I firstsaw this I was going to say it was discovered in 47, and I remember reading a article that said thelat the Rockefeller foundation did studies on it. Not that they had anything to do with vectorizing the virus. Makes you think..

this is what I have been saying
Trump is coming across so bad
that he makes Hillary look like the lesser of two evils

“Former House speaker Newt Gingrich, one of Trump’s most loyal defenders, warned that his friend was in danger of throwing away the election and helping to make Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton president unless he quickly changes course.

“The current race is which of these two is the more unacceptable, because right now neither of them is acceptable,” Gingrich said in a Wednesday morning telephone interview. “Trump is helping her to win by proving he is more unacceptable than she is.”

Gingrich has been one of Trump’s strongest supporters
even he has had enough

I wonder what number of deaths would be seen if Zika became a true pandemic, as WHO is suggesting that they are afraid it will become a pandemic. Where? In the states?

It is my understanding that pandemics kill millions and run like a forest fire killing all trees for fuel, Zika would run out of lives to kill as a forest runs out of wood to burn. I’ve never heard of Zika being in the biological warfare list, but anything is possible. The other possibility is that ISIS most certainly does already have a small collection of biowarfare “stuff” they intend to use (with no statements as to where). For America, the only warning is “a big surprise is coming to us soon”, and “right away”). Seems to me that ONE MUSLIM EXTREMIST with a vial of Black Plague “intelligently” disperses throughout an area of a city the entire contents, there is surely gonna be an “screaming outbreak” of “it”.

I can’t help but wonder how many have their hands on these things for use at their “whim, time and place.” Government isn’t doing anything to rustle out these son’s a bitches, who’s to say the people cannot do it as The Militia (picking up the slack of where the police are falling short). Besides, it WOULD be legal because it already is. (No different than neighborhood watches).

The “strange” part is that there is always a camera ON THE EXACT SPOT that trouble is going to break out (or that’s how it has been happening at ever “mass killing” (that wasn’t so massive to me, but whatever). That’s a bit OVER THE TOP for coincidence isn’t it? All active shooter incidents were filmed from their onset? Just happened to be filming the front of a building in an otherwise empty street to waste space eh? Yeah. Sure.

How many corpses can YOU pile on your wheelbarrow for the burn pile?

Surviving Zika isn’t something anyone prepped for and I don’t think it really could be (short of hermetically-sealing your entire home and BOL). That much would really not matter because there’s more to come anyway. Worse as we go forward is “safe to assume.” I’m counting on it and have adjusted accordingly. Perhaps in vain, perhaps not and only time will tell. *but keeping up with canned goods expiry dates is dreadfully boring, and seems to run in waves at times. “Unwanted expenses!”

I guess you could stay inside and run UV Lamps (florescent) in all rooms, yet even that is NOT remotely close to sterile, and does nothing to stop a mosquito from stabbing you. Netting will, and we’ve always used it as we hate ‘skeeters’. (We sleep in a “nest” designed with preppers in mind). You can just imagine? lol…

Mite as well give the keys to the Whitehouse to Hildawg. This election is over. Better burn the pillow cases cause that Dixie Peach hair pomade will never come out. Gonna have to clean all them coiled watch spring hairs outta the tub and sink traps. Hell, her old keys might still work in those locks.

Zika has been an historically benign virus since its discovery 60+ years ago. When microcephalic babies began attracting attention, those responsible needed to divert attention from the real cause, that being the overuse of glyphosate in that region of Brazil. Zika became their version of “Squirrel!” with the added benefit of creating a market for pesticides, the GM mosquitoes, and a vaccine…a trifecta. Zika is coincidental not causal, much like blaming a birth defect on the acne the mother may have. Yes, it’s present but it didn’t cause the defect.
Oxitec knew 15% of their mosquitoes could survive even without tetracycline long before releasing them. How the GM mosquito functions is interesting. The larva is designed to not fully develop. Those GM female mosquitoes reaching maturity can transfer their mutant protein to humans or any other animal and that protein will cause retarded fetal development which is what microcephaly is. It does the exact same thing to humans as it does to mosquito larva.
As a result of this ruse, Monsanto is off the hook for causing birth defects and can continue peddling their poison. The Rockefellers make a fortune selling their patented Zika virus to labs around the world racing to develop a vaccine. Bill Gates is involved in producing a vaccine. He’s also a partner in Oxitec, profiting from the sale of GM mosquitoes. I have little doubt that Gates’ vaccine will cause infertility in some fashion as most of his other vaccines have. He is a staunch eugenicist whose admitted goal is to significantly reduce world population. Between now and when a vaccine appears, the CDC and WHO are advising abstinence or birth control.
Don’t fall for their BS and don’t take the vaccine when it comes out.

CONSIDER THIS… Before the 2014 election we had a BIG SCARE over a deadly disease, EBOLA. All the media was in a big tizzy about how terrible this infestation was, you couldn’t find a Mainstream Outlet that wasn’t covering it full time, every day. And once the election was over the coverage and the panic simply faded away, AND ALMOST IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE 2014 ELECTION THE EBOLA PANIC ENDED.

Friends, that’s all this Zika virus is, just another mind-game to try to make people scared. Don’t fall for it.

In 2014 there were plenty of youtube vids about very fishy reporting of the Ebola panic. Did you see those videos of Africans who were supposedly dead, getting up after the reporters left? Or guys that said they were paid to look sick like victims? Well, look it up, I bet they are still posted somewhere.

I’ve read several stories lately about how there is ZERO medical research even linking Zika to the birth defects it supposedly causes. Hell, I bet you can lay as much blame for birth defects on Fukishima radiation as you can on any virus.

All I’m saying is let’s not be suckers AGAIN. Zika schmika, I’m not afraid. It’s bullshit.

In the North East we have seen one plague of insects after another from all over the world. Many from China. Thank you free trade?

We’ve seen two new species of mosquito. One that is known to carry really nasty diseases like malaria. This one will come out in the sun and bite you at high noon. Used to be you were safe until dusk, no more. This one they say came in on shipments of lucky bamboo! Not so lucky.

We also have a new bore that is ripping through our forests killing trees like crazy. These critters cover at least four states already. Luckily twenty years ago I planted about three species from Japan in my landscaping that seem so far to me immune. Five of my trees are Chinese heart nuts that are also immune.

If I was an ISIS sympathizer, with a biology background, I’d be exploiting Obama’s open boarders to bring in plagues the likes of which no American had ever dreamed. Thank you Obumbling idiot. We all know it’s coming. A disease that wipes out wheat or corn crops or both?

The FBI might want to interview me for posting this, but they’d never interview Obama for opening our boarders to terrorists or supposed free trade that let in pests that destroy our food sources and natural resources like our forests, Obama is so green, turning brown, black and dying are our forests and fields.

”They” are going door to door, for urine samples, does not make sense. To determine, whether or not a person, is infected,with Zika, if Zika does exists, is via a blood sample.
Blood tells everything about a person,not so much urine, which, as soon as it leaves, the body, is toxic, full of bacteria
I found it rather interesting how Barry gave 400M to Iran, yet claims no money available to fight Zika, least that is what msm told me

Lol. I wish that you could too, so that I could use it to add to my preps!
Seems that the story has changed, and now ”fearful” , both men and women, are going to the clinic to get ”blood”drawing, no more mention of a urine sample.
We are far from done , hearing about Zika,imo

Oh, and a tip for anyone who is interested. Mosquitoes, not sure of the manufactured type, but still worth a try. Hate the smell, that the body gives off, when you take B vitamins, it, odour, is undetected to humans.
B 100, covers all the B’s,and is the best to take, as well, it helps with with stress.
Mosquitoes also are repelled by the scent of yarrow, garlic, citronella, and eucalyptus, and some mints.

“…The CIA partnered with Ft. Detrick to study Dengue fever and other exotic diseases for use as biological weapons.” Together with their CDC–the grand chemical corps of the U.S. Government–they can cook up all these “out of nowhere” diseases that wouldn’t otherwise break out. They can use them for their excuse for “quarantine” as another form of martial law. The people, on the other hand, can use that “heat treatment” to eradicate their enemies’ weapons like these.

In the latest news, (article on Drudge Report) it turns out micro encephala is still only showing up in a small area in Brazil, all the while the Zika Virus appears uniformly across Brazil.

Looks like the whole thing is another CDC fraud.

There is no pandemic of tiny headed cabbage patch babies outside the original area of high concentrations.

Sounds like they need to review the causality, because it’s looking more like a local poisoning event and not a disease. There are insecticides that can produce Micro-encephala. Dump some in a towns drinking water and what we see in Brazil is exactly what you get.

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